Synopsis: Contact has been established with intelligent beings from another world, who are kindly disposed towards the inhabitants of Earth and are about to make a landing in a space ship. All communications have been achieved by means of speeding up video and audio signals currently in existence on Earth and transmitting them as very short pulses. (This is quite possible and logical). Using this communication plus a translating machine, the space ship is guided to its destination, reports a landing on the airfield, and then immediately runs into trouble. It is clearly landing in a swamp full of fantastic monsters, the atmosphere of the Earth is to the inhabitants of the space ship, opaque; furthermore, despite messages and the assistance of direction finding equipment, it would appear impossible for the ship to have landed since it is nowhere in sight. Only then does the realisation dawn upon Earth that the speeded up messages which are decodable by the aliens, do in fact represent their natural pace of living. It means therefore that their size is microscopic. They have indeed landed on the airfield and at the moment they are sinking through and dying in the rapidly drying puddle out on the tarmac.

Synopsis: This is an exception to our rule about robots. The central character is a humanoid robot, but it is inhabited by a live human brain, salvaged from the body of a world famous entertainer and ballet dancer. Her personality is still intact, she is a woman of great determination and she decides to make a comeback in the world of entertainment. This she does with riotous success — the success is heightened by the realisation of the audience that she is indeed more than human. With this however, comes the psychological problem. "I'm afraid it isn't unhappiness, Maltzer, it's fear, I don't want to draw away from the human race, I wish I needn't, that's why I'm going back on the stage, to keep in touch with them while I can. But I wish there could be others like me — I'm — I'm lonely, Maltzer".

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